Der ... Umm ... What $33-Per-Share Offer? — Get this. Yahoo (YHOO) didn't accept Microsoft's (MSFT) offer of $33-per-share, because it didn't know Microsoft had offered $33-per-share. This according to people close to Yahoo, who tell The Wall Street Journal that Yahoo only learned Microsoft …

Yahoo is Friendless On Wall Street — Jerry Yang, Yahoo's CEO, this morning posted what can be described as an emotional blog post about the Microsoft-Yahoo buyout saga. He reinforces the points he has made all along: that Yahoo needs to execute, innovate and develop more focus.

Facebook Search Box Is Low-Hanging Fruit For Microsoft — Now that the Microsoft play for Yahoo appears to be over (appears to be), everyone and their grandparents are speculating about what Microsoft and Yahoo are going to do now. One quick thing that Microsoft could do to increase …

Sprint Mulls Separating Nextel Unit — Sprint Nextel Corp. is seriously considering spinning off or selling its ailing Nextel unit, people familiar with the situation say, a dramatic acknowledgement that Sprint's $35 billion acquisition of Nextel Communications in 2005 has been a failure.

Techmeme: Where the A-Listers Party With the Long Tail. — One of the favorite bitchmeme's on Techmeme, the popular blog and news headline site that keeps track of the most talked-about tech stories on the Web, is that it is dominated by A-list blogs and news sites with full-time writing staffs.

Moving to Unicode 5.1 — Google has just begun supporting Unicode 5.1, less than one month after it was released. It's now available in search, so people speaking languages such as Malayalam can now search for words containing the new characters in Unicode 5.1.

Why Silicon Valley just won't shut up about FriendFeed — “Cathy Brooks is a typically unapologetic Silicon Valley Web addict,” writes Brad Stone in the New York Times. “Last week alone, she produced more than 40 pithy updates on the text messaging service Twitter, uploaded two dozen videos …

The Facebook Platform is Biased Toward “Fun” Apps — Over the weekend, a chart from the Flowing Data blog “revealed” that Facebook applications, on the whole, are silly. Much of the discussion that followed was of the patronizing “see, we told you Facebook apps were dumb” variety.

AP launches news service geared for iPhone — NEW YORK - The Associated Press and more than 100 of its member newspapers are launching a service Monday that will make news stories available on Apple Inc.'s iPhone and other mobile devices. — AP had announced the Mobile News Network at its annual meeting April 14 in Washington.

2018 Top 100 Global Tech Leaders — 21st century technology-sector leadership requires more than financial success. It also requires a commitment to compliance, innovation, and much more. Who are today's leaders?